Fairphone 6 and PostmarketOS working main camera

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Post by pizzaiolo » Mon, Aug 17, 2026, 10:01 PM UTC

Fairphone 6 and PostmarketOS working main camera
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Re: Fairphone 6 and PostmarketOS working main camera

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Post by nekusar » Mon, Aug 17, 2026, 10:41 PM UTC

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Post by greatgib » Mon, Aug 17, 2026, 10:43 PM UTC

Great job.

My advice would be to not take the frustrating and useless road of a non-profit structure for some things that you do for pleasure.

The for-profit will be simpler and give you more liberties, and if, in the end, you have the good mindset that you want your creations to be shared freely, you can do it anyway. It is a state of mind.

Re: Fairphone 6 and PostmarketOS working main camera

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Post by pimeys » Mon, Aug 17, 2026, 10:53 PM UTC

nekusar wrote: post #2

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I bought a OnePlus 6 for 50 euros from eBay and I can do a ton of things with it already. Plasma is great in mobile, and what did not work I got working pretty fast together with Kimi and DeepSeek.

For example here's patches to get NFC YubiKey working in Secrets app:

https://github.com/pimeys/oneplus6-yubikey-nfc

It is a work in progress but pretty easy to pick things up and fix in this age of agents...

Re: Fairphone 6 and PostmarketOS working main camera

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Post by varun_ch » Mon, Aug 17, 2026, 10:57 PM UTC

The part about getting authorized to test the emergency calling capabilities is cool! I should've expected that would be a thing but I didn't ever consider it.

Re: Fairphone 6 and PostmarketOS working main camera

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Post by nekusar » Mon, Aug 17, 2026, 11:05 PM UTC

pimeys wrote: post #4

nekusar wrote: post #2

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I bought a OnePlus 6 for 50 euros from eBay and I can do a ton of things with it already. Plasma is great in mobile, and what did not work I got working pretty fast together with Kimi and DeepSeek. For example here's patches to get NFC YubiKey working in Secrets app: https://github.com/pimeys/oneplus6-yubikey-nfc It is a work in progress but pretty easy to pick things up and fix in this age of agents...

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Re: Fairphone 6 and PostmarketOS working main camera

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Post by flaburgan » Mon, Aug 17, 2026, 11:18 PM UTC

nekusar wrote: post #2

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By "Linux phone", what are your expectations exactly? Because if you talk "only" about the userspace, I have been daily driving Ubuntu Touch since 2019 on a Fairphone 2 and then a Pixel 3a and it is working like a charm. But it is using halium so you still have an Android kernel. So if you also talk about the kernel then yeah Postmarket OS is the closest to this and quite good on Fairphone already, I think some people could daily drive it if they feel adventurous. Then if you talk about 100% free software then indeed, nothing with a working modem is available as far as I know. And if you talk about open hardware then we are clearly not here even if I dream about it...

Re: Fairphone 6 and PostmarketOS working main camera

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Post by zb3 » Mon, Aug 17, 2026, 11:29 PM UTC

PostmarketOS can't partner with any OEM/ODM and volunteers have to use hacks to unofficially implement basic Android 1.0 functionality years after a device was released? That's sad to see. This is just lame, drivers should be implemented by those who work on them..

We had Librem 5 which had real OS support that didn't have to rely on third-party volunteers, I wish they released something more modern..

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Post by yjftsjthsd-h » Mon, Aug 17, 2026, 11:35 PM UTC

zb3 wrote: post #8

PostmarketOS can't partner with any OEM/ODM and volunteers have to use hacks to unofficially implement basic Android 1.0 functionality years after a device was released? That's sad to see. This is just lame, drivers should be implemented by those who work on them.. We had Librem 5 which had real OS support that didn't have to rely on third-party volunteers, I wish they released something more modern..

> PostmarketOS can't partner with any OEM/ODM

Is there any precedent to believe that such a thing is in fact possible?

> and volunteers have to use hacks

I have terrible news for you about how the official firmware works.

> to unofficially implement basic Android 1.0 functionality years after a device was released?

Conversely, in other places it's far better than Android 1.0. But yes, if you can only start developing against the device after it's released, then your software will be released after the hardware ships plus development time.

> That's sad to see. This is just lame, drivers should be implemented by those who work on them..

My general understanding of the Android ecosystem is that they do write drivers, and you don't want those drivers. I like to imagine that somewhere that out there somebody must be making phones with high quality software, but I've never heard of them.

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Post by zb3 » Mon, Aug 17, 2026, 11:35 PM UTC

nekusar wrote: post #2

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You're not being negative enough when it comes to non-Android linux phones, and even when it comes to Android, there's just ONE serious project - GrapheneOS which has people working full-time and which will be officially supported on future Motorola flagships.

Unfortunately even that one is missing modern replacements of outdated unsupported AOSP sample apps (like Phone and Contacts, others can be replaced without extra privileges).